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The 20 th Fighter crew joined the eighth Air strength Command in Dec of '43, flying the P-38 in lengthy diversity bomber escort position. the crowd later switched over to the P-51 in July of '44. the gang destroyed a complete of 449 enemy plane in the course of its wrestle journey. Over one hundred fifty photographs, eight pages of colour, eighty pages.

The 20 th Fighter crew joined the eighth Air strength Command in Dec of '43, flying the P-38 in lengthy diversity bomber escort function. the crowd later switched over to the P-51 in July of '44. the gang destroyed a complete of 449 enemy plane in the course of its strive against travel. Over one hundred fifty images, eight pages of colour, eighty pages.

8, have global Za slices. However, the extended action (S 1 , S 2n−1 ) has finite isotropy but is not locally injective. 13 Proposition. Suppose P is a principal G-bundle where G is a connected Lie group, and Π ⊂ TOPG (P ) is a group of covering transformations of P acting properly, that centralizes (G) and (G) ∩ Π = 1. Then the induced G-action on Π\P = X is locally injective. Proof. Since Π commutes with (G), there is induced a G-action on Π\P = X, which is covered by (G) on P . Because G is connected, this lift is the unique lift to P covering the induced G-action on X.

When k = rank Z(π1 (M )), the torus action is called a maximal torus action. 13 Corollary. Let M be a closed aspherical maniflod for which the center of its fundamental group is finitely generated. If (T k , M ) is a maximal torus action, then Im(evx∗ ) = Center π1 (M, x). Conversely, if Im(evx∗ ) = Center π1 (M, x), then (T k , M ) is a maximal torus action on M . , we shall examine in detail maximal torus actions on many types of aspherical manifolds. 14 Remark. There are two unsolved problems here.

Let c : (M, x) → (N, y) be a finite regular covering of N by an admissible manifold M . Let H be the image c∗ (π1 (M, x)) ⊂ π1 (N, y), and suppose there exists an action of a compact connected Lie group G on N whose image evy# (π1 (G, e)) ⊂ H. Then the conclusions of Theorem ?? still hold. Show also, if N is non-orientable and M is the orientable double covering, then evy∗ (π1 (G, e)) ⊂ H. Hint: The lifted action to the universal covering (and that is by the group Gker(ev∗ ) ) preserves orientation, and translates into evy∗ (π1 (G, e)) ⊂ H.